The Dialogues for Sustainable Development will gather 100 panelists in 10 panels focused on key themes on the international agenda for sustainability. The debates will take place at the plenary room of Pavilion 5 of Riocentro and will be open to the Rio+20 accredited media. Access to the plenary room will be subject to availability of seats.
The opening session of the Dialogues will begin at 11:00 AM on Saturday, June 16, and will have the participation of the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, and the Executive Coordinator for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Ms. Elizabeth Thompson, also former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados.
All the debates will be broadcast live on the UN website: http://www.uncsd2012.org. The Dialogues’ complete program and the list of participants are attached to this message.
Press briefings with two participants of each panel of the Dialogues will take place in the main press briefing room at Pavilion 3 (Room P3-7), according to the following program:


Saturday 16
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Unemployment, decent work and migrations
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Sustainable development in response to economic and financial crises

Sunday 17
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Sustainable development to combat poverty
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: The economics of Sustainable Development, including sustainable production and
consumption patterns
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Forests

Monday 18
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Sustainable energy for all
4:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Food and nutrition security
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Water

Tuesday 19
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Sustainable cities and innovation
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Oceans

    “Dialogues for Sustainable Development”
Agenda and Participants
   
1 - Unemployment, decent work and migrations – June 16, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
 
Moderator: Mr. Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
. Ms. Carmen Helena Ferreira Foro (Brazil) – Secretary of Rural Women Workers of CONTAG.
. Mr. Daniel Iliescu (Brazil) – President, National Students Union
. Ms. Deborah Wince-Smith (USA) - President, The Council on Competitiveness
. Ms. Ivana Savich (Serbia) – Coordinator, CSD Youth Caucus
. Dr. James K. Galbraith (USA) - Professor, Texas University
. Dr. Lu Hulin (China) - Professor, Beijing University
. Ms. Nana-Fosu Randall (Ghana) – Founder and President, Voices of African Mothers (VAM)
. Ms. Sharan Burrow (Australia) - Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation
. Mr. Maurice Strong (Canada) – Secretary-General of the Conferences in Stockholm (1972) and in Rio de Janeiro (1992)
. Mr. Peter Bakker – President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
 
 
2 – Sustainable Development in response to economic and financial crises – June 16, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
 
Moderator: Mr. Luis Nassif (Brazil) – TV Brasil /Agência Dinheiro Vivo
. Mr. Caio Koch-Weser (Germany) - Vice-President, Deutsche Bank Group
. Dr. Enrique V. Iglesias (Uruguay) – Secretary-General Ibero-Americana (SEGIB). Ex-President, Interamerican Development Bank (1988-2005)
. Mr. Fabio Barbosa (Brazil) – CEO, Abril S.A.
. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (USA) -Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
. Dr. Herman Mulder (Netherlands) - President, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
. Ms. Kate Raworth (United Kingdom) - Researcher, Oxfam
. Dr. Marcela Benítez (Argentina) – Founder and Director, RESPONDE Association
. Mr. Wang Shi (China) – Founder and President, China Vanke Co. Ltd
. Dr. Yilmaz Akyuz (Tukey) – Chief Economist, South Centre
. Dr. Laurence Tubiana (France) – Sciences Po
 
 
3 – Sustainable Development to combat poverty – June 16, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
 
Moderator: Sr. Fred de Sam Lazaro (USA) - PBS
. Dr. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Portugal) - Professor, University of Coimbra
. Dr. Judith Sutz (Uruguay) - Professor, Universidad de la Republica
. Ms. Lourdes Huanca Atencio (Peru) - President, National Federation of Women Rural Workers, Artisans, Indigenous
and Wage Workers of Peru (Femucarinap)
. Dr. Manish Bapna (USA) - President World Resources Institute (WRI)
. Dr. Márcia Lopes (Brazil) - Professor, Ex-Minister Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation
. Sr. Marcos Terena (Brazil) - President, Intertribal Committee. Dr. Pavan Sukhdev (Índia) – Founder and President,
                Gist Advisory Private Ltd.
. Ms. Severn Cullis-Suzuki (Canada) – Board Member, David Suzuki Foundation
. Mr. Victor Trucco (Argentina) – Honorary President, Argentine Association of No-Till Producers (AAPRESID)
. Dr. Yang Tuan (China) - Director, Center for Study of Social Policies, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences
 
 


4 - The economics of Sustainable Development, including sustainable production and consumption patterns – June 17, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Moderator: Sr. Joseph Leahy (United Kingdom) – Financial Times
. Dr. Elisabeth Laville (France) - Director, UTOPIES
. Dr. Enase Okonedo (Nigeria) - Deacon, Lagos Business School
. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway) – Former Prime Minister of Norway
. Mr. Helio Mattar (Brazil) - President, Instituto Akatu. Co-Founder of Instituto Ethos
. Dr. Ignacy Sachs (France) - Professor, Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Contemporain (CRDC), École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
. Mr. Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio (Peru) - CEO, Planetary Skin Institute
. Dr. Kelly Rigg (USA) – CEO, Global Campaign for Climate Action
. Dr. Mathis Wackernagel (Switzerland) - Co-Founder, Executive Director, Global Footprint Network
. Dr. Thomas Heller (USA) – CEO, Climate Policy Initiative
. Ambassador Rubens Ricupero (Brazil) – Former Secretary-General, UNCTAD

 
5 – Forests – June 17, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Moderator: Sr. James Chau (China) - CCTV
. Mr. Anders Hildeman (Sweden) - Global Forestry Manager, IKEA of Sweden AB
. Sr. André Giacini de Freitas (Brazil) - CEO, Forest Stewardship Council (Forest Management Board)
. Dr. Bertha Becker (Brazil) - Professor, UFRJ
. Mr. Christian Del Valle (United Kingdom) - Founder, Althelia Climate Fund
. Mr. Estebancio Castro Diaz (Panama) – Executive Secretary, Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests
. Mr. Guilherme Leal (Brazil) – Founder, CEO, Natura Cosméticos
. Dr. Julia Marton-Lefevre (France) - CEO, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
. Dr. Klaus Töpfer (Germany) - Founder, CEO, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Former CEO of the United Nations Environment (1998-2006)
. Dr. Lu Zhi (China) - Director, Center for Nature and Society, Beijing University
. Dr. Yolanda Kakabadse (Ecuador) - President, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
 

6 – Food and nutrition security – June 17, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Moderator: Paulo Prada, Reuters
. Mr. Carlo Petrini (Italy) – Founder, President, Slow Food
. Ms. Esther Penunia (Philippines) – Secretary-General, Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
. Ms. Hortensia Hidalgo (Chile) - Indigenous Women Network of Latin America and the Caribbean for Biodiversity (RMIB)
. Ms. Josette Sheeran (USA) - Vice-President, World Economic Forum
. Dr. Luísa Dias Diogo (Mozambique) – Former Prime Minister of Mozambique
. Mr. Marco Marzano de Marinis (Italy) - CEO, World Farmers Organization
. Dr. Martin Khor (Malaysia) - CEO, South Centre
. Dr. Mary Robinson (Ireland) - Director, International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED)
. Dr. Renato S. Maluf (Brazil) - Coordinator, Council on Food and Nutrition Security, (UFRRJ)
. Dr. Vandana Shiva (India) - Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology

 
7 – Sustainable energy for all – June 18, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
 
Moderator: Mr. James Astill (United Kingdom) – The Economist
. Mr. Brian Dames (South Africa) - CEO, Eskom
. Ms. Changhua Wu (USA) - Director, Greater China - The Climate Group
. Ms. Christine Lins (Austria) - CEO, REN21
. Mr. José Antonio Vargas Lleras (Colombia) – Vice-President for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), World Energy Council (WEC) / President, CODENSA S.A.
. Dr. Kornelis Blok (Netherlands) - Founder, Ecofys Group
. Dr. Luiz Pinguelli Rosa (Brazil) - Diretor, COPPE-UFRJ; Executive Secretary, Brazilian Forum on Climate Change
. Ms. Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Belgium) - Director, EU Office, University of Cambridge, Program for Sustainability and Leadership; Vice-Chair, European biofuels technology platform
. Ms. Sheila Oparaocha (Zambia) – Executive Secretary, International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
. Dr. Thomas Nagy (Denmark) – Executive Vice-President, Novozymes
. Mr. Vasco Dias (Brazsil) - President, Raízen Energia

 


8 – Water – June 18 de junho, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
 
Moderator: Ms. Lucia Newman (Chile) – Al Jazeera
. Mr. Albert Butare (Rwanda) - CEO, Africa Energy Services Group
. Dr. Ania Grobicki (Sweden) – Executive Secretary, Global Water Partnership (GWP)
. Dr. Benedito Braga (Brazil) - President, International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Vice-President, World Water Council (WWC)
. Mr. David Boys (Canada) – Utilities Officer, Public Services International
. Mr. Dyborn Chibonga (Malawi) - CEO, National Smallholder Farmer´s Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
. Mr. Jeff Seabright (USA) - Vice-President, Environment and Water Resources - Coca-Cola Co.
. Dr. Loïc Fauchon (França) - President, World Water Council Board of Governors
. Dr. Muhammed Yunus (Bangladesh) - Founder, Grameen Bank
. Ms. Myrna Cunningham Kaim (Nicaragua) - Director, Permanent Forum of the United Nations of Indigenous People (2011-2013)
. Dr. Santha Sheela Nair (India) – Former Secretary, Department of Fresh Water, Ministry of Rural Development, India
 

9 – Sustainable Cities and Innovation – June 18, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
 
Moderator: Mr. Andre Trigueiro (Brazil) – TV Globo
. Dr. Alejandro Aravena (Chile) - Architect, CEO, Elemental
. Dr. Barry Bergdoll (USA) – Chief Curator, Architecture and Design, MoMA
. Mr. David Cadman (Canada) - President, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI)
. Dr. Enrique Ortiz (Mexico) - Former President, Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
. Mr. Jaime Lerner (Brazil) - President, Jaime Lerner Institute. Former Mayor of Curitiba and Former Governor of Paraná
. Dr. Janice Perlman (USA) - President, Mega Cities Project
. Mr. Khalifa Sall (Senegal) – Mayor of Dakar and Vice-President of UCLG for Africa
. Mr. Oded Grajew (Brazil) - President Emeritus, Instituto Ethos
. Ms. Nawal Al-Hosany (United Arab Emirates) – Director of Sustainability, Masdar
. Dr. Shigeru Ban (Japan) - Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects

 
10 – Oceans – June 19, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
 
 
Moderator: Sr. Philippe Cousteau (USA) - CNN
. Mr. Arthur Bogason (Iceland) - President, Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners
. Ms. Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka) – Marine Biologist, Western Australia University
. Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain (Italy) - President, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands
. Dr. Jean-Michel Cousteau (France) - President, Ocean Futures Society
. Ms. Margareth Nakato (Uganda) - World Fishermen Forum
. Dr. Robin Mahon (Barbados) - Professor, University of West Indies
. Dr. Segen Farid Estefen (Brazil) - Professor, COPPE, UFRJ
. Mr. Shaj Thayil (India) - Vice-President, Technical Services and Ship Management
. Dr. Sylvia Earle (USA) - Founder, Mission Blue Foundation
. Dr. Ussif Rashid Sumaila (Canada) - Director, Fisheries Centre and Fisheries Economics Research Unit, British Columbia University